If you’re one of those people who is very particular about protecting your privacy you might find many sites on the web today very intrusive. There are some basic tips that a lot of users might be familiar with, like clearing your cookies and browsing history frequently.
Here are some advanced tips on how you can improve your privacy if you use Firefox web browser to surf the web.
1. Clear a particular URL from your browsing history
Start to type out the URL, and when Firefox pops up that site in the list of sites, select it by moving your cursor over it (but don’t click) – hold down
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tags: browser,
security
One of the easiest way to secure your computer from the prying co-worker’s eyes is to set a screensaver password. But if often leave your computer in a short moment only to repeatedly type the password, this simple security system could be annoying. Snow Leopard let the users decide how long should the screensaver (or sleep mode) run before you need to type in the password.
So if a user goes for a glass of water in the dispenser, he/she can continue right away.
Want to instant screensaver activation Key/Screen Lock Key ?
tags: password,
screensaver,
security
Apple today released a series of security updates targeting users of Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Leopard. According to the support document for the release, the updates address a single vulnerability related to handling of embedded fonts by Apple Type Services. Discovery of the vulnerability is credited to noted cybersecurity researcher Charlie Miller, who last month disclosed his discovery of 20 new zero-day holes in Mac OS X.
- Security Update 2010-003 (Snow Leopard) (6.50 MB)
- Security Update 2010-003 (Leopard-Client) (218.6 MB)
- Security Update 2010-003 (Leopard-Server) (379.5 MB)
The
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tags: security,
update
Apple today released Safari 4.0.5 for Mac (Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard) bringing a number of enhancements to Apple’s Internet browser application.
This update is recommended for all Safari users and includes improvements to performance, stability, and security including:
Performance improvements for Top Sites
Stability improvements for 3rd-party plug-ins
Stability improvements for websites with online forms and Scalable Vector Graphics
Fixes an issue that prevented Safari from changing settings on some Linksys routers
Fixes an issue that prevented some iWork.com users from commenting
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tags: browser,
security,
update
To reset your OS X password without an OS X CD you have two ways
First Way “create a new admin account”
Reboot
Hold apple + s down after you hear the chime.
When you get text prompt enter in these terminal commands to create a brand new admin account (hitting return after each line):
mount -uw /
rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
shutdown -h now
After rebooting you should have a brand new admin account. When you login as the new admin you can simply delete the old one and you’re good to go again!
Second way “Resetting or changing your existing password”
If you’ve
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tags: password,
security
Requirements:
Home folder to be encrypted.
Don’t need my Time Machine disk to be encrypted
First, make sure your Time Machine setup is functioning properly.
The XCode installed, as it uses Property List Editor
(Note: you’ll need to change the process a bit if you use a different property list editor.)
How to do that:
You will need to manually edit the preference file for Time Machine, adding the ID string of your File Vault disk to the list of disks to backup. You can’t do this from within System Preferences or otherwise.
One way of finding the ID string of the disk is
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tags: backup,
security,
time machine
There Security Update 2010-001,
which can be downloaded and installed via Software Update preferences, or from Apple Downloads
Size: 22.4MB
CoreAudio CVE-ID: CVE-2010-0036Available for: Mac OS X v10.5.8, Mac OS X Server v10.5.8, Mac OS X v10.6.2, Mac OS X Server v10.6.2
Impact: Playing a maliciously crafted mp4 audio file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: A buffer overflow exists in the handling of mp4 audio files. Playing a maliciously crafted mp4 audio file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.
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tags: security,
Snow Leopard
One of the oddities of my computer use style is that I don’t like to have my system go into screensaver or lock automatically very quickly. When I leave the keyboard, I like to be able to activate the screensaver/lock manually. Since I’m also not a fan of active screen corners, I want to be able to do so by keystroke.
Annoyingly, OS X doesn’t let me bind a key to activate the screensaver. There used to be a couple utilities that enabled this, but they haven’t been updated since 10.3.
The screensaver engine itself is an application, but we still need a convenient wayto activate it. Enter
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tags: 10.5,
10.6,
quicksilver,
screensaver,
security
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